WEB MEMORIAL POSTER EXHIBITION - Eduardo Munoz Bachs
Photo from R. Vezina's Affiches de Cuba 1959 - 1996 web site
Bachs' last poster, for the ICOGRADA meeting
Semana del disegno grafico in Havana, June 2001 		Moving cinema, 1969
from Lincoln Cushing's Cuban posters web site 		Eduardo Munoz Bachs and Rene Mederos, 1995
Photo from Lincoln Cushing

As reported in the recent ICOGRADA newsletter, the great cuban poster designer and children's book illustrator Eduardo Munoz Bachs has died in Havana on July 22, 2001 .

Born on April 12, 1937 in Valencia, Spain, Bachs came to Cuba with his parents in 1941. With no formal training in graphic design, he made the first poster, in 1960, for the ICAIC, the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica that was founded shortly after the cuban revolution to produce and promote cuban films.

The association with ICAIC lasted for a lifetime, and Bachs made over 2000 movie posters for them. He is counted among the greatest cuban poster designers, .. el maestro del cartel cubano de todos los tiempos, and has contributed, together with Raul Martinez, Antonio Fernandez Reboiro, Felix Beltran, Rene Azcuy, Rene Mederos, Antonio Perez Gonzalez "Niko" and Alfredo Gonzalez Rostgaard, to the international admiration that the colorful cuban posters of the 1970's have enjoyed.

Here are some of his posters that I found on the web: Click on the picture to go to the source page.

Historias de la revolucion 1960 El 1er dia de la paz 1961 Cuba baila 1961 Alba de Cuba 1962 Cuentos del Alhambra 1965 Aventuras de Juan Quinquin 1967 Por primera vez 1968 Karate campeon 1969 Los amantes de Hiroshima 1969
Chuquiago 197? No hai regreso para Johnny 1971 The patsy 1971 Cines moviles en la escuela rural 1971 1972 La virgen y el gitano 1972 Estacion Bielorrusia 1972 La nevada 1972 Petulia 1973
Que vivan los espiritus 1973 Sucedio en la cienaga 1973 Morira morira 1973 El monstruo del castillo de Blackwood 1973 Ichi y lafugitiva 1973 Los cuentos de Jack London 1973 El llamado de la selva 1975 Semana de cine cubano en Egypto 1975 Dos Almas en Pugna 1975
Monologo 1975 La gran esperanza blanca 1976 El dia que salieron los peces 1976 El cero 1977 Cuando la mujer encilla el caballo 1977 Cria cuervos 1977 El descendiente de Gengis Kahn 1977 En las tinieblas 1977 Etiopia, diario de una victoria 1977
Semana de cine cubano en Brasil 1977 16 anos despues 1978 Mercedes Sosa 1978 Los manos 1978 Dicho sea de paso 1979 Tumba francesa 1979 Los dias del pasado 1979 Los karatecas 1979 Tango y Tango 198?
Fidel aprieta que a Cuba se respeta 1980 Cayita: una legenda 1980 Gigantes de la montana 1981 Muestra del cine de animacion 1981 Ciertas palabras con Chico Buarque 1983 Se permuta 1984 Ninos desaparecidos 1985 El Bohio 1985 Estetica 1985
Vampiros en La Habana 1985 Vecinos 1985 Mujer ante el espejo 1986 Papeles secundarios 1989 Plaf 1989 Chapuzerias 1991 La fidelitad 1993 El cine y yo 1995 Centenario del cine cubano 1997

Links

A biography by Raymond Vezina (in french)
A short biography (in spanish)
An interview with Bachs, in 1995, with Jesus Vega
Lincoln Cushing's web page on cuban posters, with 27 Bachs posters
The cuban poster homepage, with many posters, interviews, faq, links
Cuban movie posters from the 1980's, with several examples from Bachs
An article on Bachs' movie posters, by Sergio Lopez Garcia (in spanish)
Bachs importance for ICAIC, with a picture of the artist
Two Bachs posters from an exhibition at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam
Two posters in the cuban poster collection of a french spanish teacher
Bachs last poster "Semana del Disegno Grafica", for the ICOGRADA meeting in La Habana, June 2001

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